The world panorama of dating sites and apps is among the most competitive on the internet, but dominated by only two companies that have beaten the competition in different ways: Badoo and Tinder . What is striking in this competition is the fact that Badoo is still the most famous site everywhere and above all in Italy, by far beating that Tinder that has instead revolutionized the world of online dating.
If you were wondering what is actually the largest and most frequented dating site in the world, the answer is therefore Badoo, according to data released by the BBC.
In second place instead, very detached, there is Tinder, the app to meet girls or boys that we like .
Indeed, almost 300 million people have signed up for Badoo, although this statistic actually hides the number of truly active users.
Badoo's problem, in small terms, is that many of the registered accounts are actually dead or bogus.
This has happened above all in past years (Badoo has been active since 2006) when many people were invited with a rather subtle spamming technique.
I can remember several years ago that I too often received spam emails every day telling me that I had received a message from a beautiful woman in Badoo and that to read it I had to register.
Thinking about how many people all over the world could fall into this small scam, also driven by the provocative photo of a beautiful girl, it is obvious that all the statistics made by the researchers and advertised by Badoo himself lose all value.
Furthermore, most of the female profiles do not seem related to normal people, but to professionals in the sector.
As if that were not enough, using the Badoo app for Android smartphones and for iPhone, payment of credits and superpowers is required to start chatting with people, effectively canceling the possibility of meeting people for free.
Badoo has however copied the search function of the people we like from Tinder, which as mentioned above, has really made the "online dating" fun and dispassionate, without complication and above all free.
Today Tinder is no longer completely free, but it certainly offers more possibilities than Badoo, with many normal people who use it to have fun and not only to meet women or men live, but also to chat freely with new people and flirt even for fun .
My advice therefore is not to play too much with Badoo, avoid it and focus on Tinder or other dating apps (Android, iOS, web) to find who we like or the soul mate and if you really want to be serious, pay some service like Meetic, who at least don't look like a scam.
